Suspicious deaths at Infectious Diseases Hospital demand thorough probe

A GRIEVING WIFE DEMANDS A PROBE INTO SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AT THE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, after her 57-year-
old husband died a day after he was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the
Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)
Kenneth Blounte recovered from the highly contagious COVID-19 but was suffering from
pneumonia when he was taken to the GPHC. According to information reaching this media
house, the businessman and father of one was languishing in the country’s apex healthcare
institution for more than a week awaiting a vacant bed.
The heartbroken wife, Geeta Bisnauth, between tears, blasted the health ministry as being solely
responsible for her husband’s untimely death.
“My husband didn’t die from COVID, as he had recovered from it. They (the hospital) killed my
husband. He had begged me to move him, and every time I contacted a private hospital and
secured their agreement to accept my husband, Dr (Tracey) Bovell, who is in charge, (allegedly)
would call the doctors there directly and convince them not to admit my husband. This resulted
in at least three private hospitals telling me that based on the advice given by Dr. Bovell they are
unable to accommodate my husband,” she claimed.
Ms. Bisnauth is mystified, and outraged, why her husband was not discharged from the
infectious diseases institution immediately even after he was given the green light. She believed
he was exposed to reinfection from the highly contagious corona virus.
She told www.aroundtheregions.com that Dr Bovell confirmed her husband’s COVID
negative status.
The now-dead man had confided some dark, dirty details about the Infectious Diseases Hospital
to his wife via social media. In it, he detailed systematic verbal abuse and other forms of habitual
mistreatment of patients by some hospital staff.

He referred especially about a senior healthcare worker as a principal culprit in the ill-treatment
of hapless patients.
This media house is in receipt of those social media posts.
Of particular concern to Ms. Bisnauth, was her husband’s worry that patients who exposed
wrongdoings at the institution mysteriously died within a few days. It was her late husband who
originally floated the idea of the need for an urgent probe into misconduct at that hospital,
Bisnauth revealed.
The late Mr. Blounte had confided in his wife that investigators needed to query whether patients
were deliberately starved to death by nurses. Many of the patients, Blounte revealed, were unable
to feed themselves. but the healthcare workers ignored them.
Blounte in his social messages to his wife urged her to rescue him from that place, warning
about lots of ‘dark secrets’ needing public exposure.
“If you leave the patients without food, no care, attention and or support ultimately, they would
die and if you have a Sister who would abuse the patients, and if her staff sought to intervene,
they too would be abused verbally. She would tell the patients that those who like to talk or
spread information should take care of themselves as she has no time for them.”
“I spoke to my husband a mere few days before, and he was ok. He was in high spirits as he had
begged me to get a taxi and move him out of the hospital ASAP because of ill-treatment by the
staff. He was fearful and unfortunately, he never got to tell me about the dark secrets that he saw
taking place there that he so wanted to tell me when he got out,” a tearful Bisnauth said.
Bisnauth said she reached out to Ministers of Government, Mr. Nigel Dharamlall, Juan Edghill
and Dr Frank Anthony. According to her, she has only gotten the rhetoric of an investigation
from the trio.
“The government should shut down the COVID hospital as there are many persons who have
died because they sought to speak out. There are many who mysteriously died and because you
are not allowed to know what is taking place there, it is being swept under the carpet. The staff

there are deliberately abandoning and leaving patients on their own and whenever the meals
come then you get it and if you are too weak to feed yourself then you are left alone to fend for
yourself,” she complained.
“I want the hospital to be closed. I am appealing to persons to refuse admission at the COVID
hospital as you will certainly die faster than if you stay at home,” she advised.
Bisnauth said she was forced to use $6,000 to add data to her husband phone to remain in
contact, since a nurse deliberately disconnected the hospitals Wi-Fi in retaliation for his
‘snitching’.
“They killed my husband and I am appealing to the public to stay away from there,” a
tearful Bisnauth warned.